neikos
Joined 11 years ago
Joined 11 years ago
Yes, you could brute-force all the points. The good thing is, ECC is done on fields that are very large, so that actually enumerating them is not practical. Check out Curve25519[1] for some numbers.
Since I abhor the subscription trend it made picking easy.
I would guess to anticipate possible problems, but I don't really know.
Destructively changing anything should be approached with extreme care, since you cannot un-extinct a species.
I'd illustrate it like what happens on Linux when you are approaching OOM situations. You can either kill other processes, not knowing what they did or if they were vital, or just stop doing what you were doing. And so far societies have usually decided that mines are not as important as raw materials at some point.
Unless what you are doing is not fit for what guarantees Rust gives you, the compiler should just be a crutch in case you missed a step.